This
wood chip district heating system in Seale was
commissioned in December 2006. The 100 KW Talbotts
boiler provides heating for 7000 sq ft offices,
2500sq ft of storage and heating and hot water
for one four bedroom farm house and one five bedroom
manor house; there is enough capacity to heat
three more cottages.
The boiler uses 61 tonnes of wood chip per year
with a moisture range between 14.3% and 19.7%.
Timber, mainly chestnut coppice grown on the Estate,
is stored outside for a year, with a sheet of
silage plastic covering the top only.
Chipping takes place 4 or 5 times a year where
the timber is chipped directly into old silage
trailers. A day’s chipping produces 10 trailer
loads of wood chip which is stored adjacent to
the boiler ready to be loaded by tractor front
end loader into the hopper. One hopper load of
wood chip lasts about four days.
More details on Shoelands Farm can be found at
http://www.shoelandsfarm.co.uk/
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